Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,433, Jonas Gilbert, Mass.

SERVICE
Gilbert, Jonas
NUMBER
Mass.
S 30433
CONTENTS

No 430 Massachusetts
Jonas Gilbert
of Brookfield in the State of Massachusetts who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Bailey of the Reg't commanded by Col Bailey in the Massachusetts line for three years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 80 Dollars & Cents per am to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 th day of Sept 1832 and sent to Pension care of Barlow Freeman western Mass
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 120 Semi-annual allowance ending 14 Mar 33 40 $160
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by
Hocula
Clerk,
Book D Vol. 2 Page 54

Discharge Copied & sent to Hon J. C. Bates, H.R. May 19. 1834

Jonas Gilbert's Statement.

I James Gilbert, of Brookfield in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy years do hereby make the following statement. I made application A. D. 1818 to the War Department for the benefits of the Act of Congress passed March 18 th A.D. 1818. & my name was placed on the Pension Roll, but was struck from the same on account of my owning property. I was a private in the Massachusetts line of the Revo- lutionary army. I belonged to the Second Massa- chusetts Regiment. The first year I belonged to Capt. Adam Bailey's Company. - from that I was transferred to the light infantry in a Company commanded by Capt. Robert Bradford. in which Company I served till the end of the time I was in the army as of the regular troops - which was three years. My present place of residence is in said Brookfield. & I resided there when my first application was made for the benefit of said act. I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to any pension or annuity except the present, & declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State, nor has been except on the pension list Roll of the Massachusetts agency, from which it

has been struck as aforesaid - I received a certificate of my being on the Pension list, dated 27 th day of July, A.D. 1818, & signed by J. C. Calhoun, then Secretary of War Dated at Worcester August 14 th 1818.
Jonas Gilbert
I sworn to, & subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
Before Nathl. James, Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester -
Worcester ss Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Probate Court at Worcester on the 14 th day of August A.D. 1832. And the said Court do hereby declare their Opinion that the above named Jonas Gilbert appli- cant aforesaid was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states -
I, Theophilus Wheeler Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester do hereby certify that the foregoing are the original proceed- ings of the said Court in the matter of the appli- cation for a Pension -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court this 14 th day of August A.D. 1832. Theophilus Wheeler Register of Probate for the County of Worcester in

30 433 INVALID.
File No. 30 433
Jonas Gilbert His Rev. Mrs.
Act: June 1 st 32 nd
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 154
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1950
Massachusetts.
Jonas Gilbert, private, Massachusetts line // 1781 - War
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 4 th of May, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27. of July, 1818. and sent to the care of Edward H. Bangs, Esq; Westminster, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Sept r . 1818. $: 32.26. semi and aliae ending
4 months, \frac{1}{31} - $: 32.26.
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
Brookfield, Worcester Co

Hon. Lewis C. Cast  Cast Secretary of War, Washington, D. C.
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Western, Worcester County, Massachusetts.
Augt. 17. 1818.
To the Honorable Lewis Cass, Secretary of War.
Enclosed is the statement of Jonas Gilbert, of Brookfield, in said County, with the proceedings of the Court of Probate of this County thereon.
I enclose also the Certificate mentioned in said statement, although I do not know that it is necessary to do so.
As soon as the proper certificate is prepared, please direct it, by mail, to Jonas Gilbert , care of Barlow Freeman , Western, Worcester Co Mass ts .
If the enclosed is incorrect, or insufficient for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the act of June 7 th 1832, please give early notice thereof.
I am very respectfully your most obedient servant
Barlow Freeman

Payable on the 4 th of March, and 4 th Sept. in each year, by Will m Gray, Esq.; Branch Bank, U.S. Boston, Mass. etc.
Recorded
James G. Hill

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I CERTIFY, That in conformity with the Law of the UNITED STATES, of the 18 th of March, 1818, Jonas Gilbert, _____ late a private — in the Massachusetts line of the revolutionary army, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight — dollars, — cents per month, to commence on the fourth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
GIVEN at the WAR OFFICE of the UNITED STATES, this 27 th day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
A. C. Calhoun Secretary of War.

Jonas Gilbert witness Edward Bangs, Esq.; Westminster, Worcester County, Massachusetts.
Jonas Gilbert Massachusetts line, Revolutionary Claim.
Correct.

State of Massachusetts
Jonas Gilbert a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Brookfield in the County of Worcester in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on twenty third day of January  or about the  seventeen hundred & eighty one
I entered and was engaged in the Army Land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the nineteenth day of December seventeen hundred & eighty three
as a common soldier against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence: that I belonged to Adams Bailey company part of the time & the other part Capt. Bradford's company in the second Massachusetts Regiment in the War of the Revolution
and that I left the service on said nineteenth day of December 1783
and that, by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of fifty five
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
Jonas Gilbert
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this 4th day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and 18 pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me,
Edward Bangs Colonel C. C. C. Commissioner of the United States the abovenamed Jonas Gilbert
and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true.
with the seal of said Court Edward Bangs